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Definition of DEAD

noun : DEAD

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
- dead
) people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" ;

2. (
- dead
) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" ;

Adjective : DEAD

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
- dead ,
) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" ;

2. (
- dead ,
) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" ;

3. (
- all_in ,
- beat ,
- bushed ,
- dead
) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" ;

4. (
- dead
) unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" ;

5. (
- dead
) physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" ;

6. (
- dead ,
- numb
) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" ;

7. (
- dead ,
- deadened
) devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" ;

8. (
- dead
) lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" ;

9. (
- dead ,
- idle
) not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" ;

10. (
- dead ,
- stagnant
) not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" ;

11. (
- dead
) not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" ;

12. (
- dead
) lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" ;

13. (
- dead
) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" ;

14. (
- dead
) no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" ;

15. (
- dead
) the complete stoppage of an action; "came to a dead stop" ;

16. (
- dead ,
- drained
) drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" ;

17. (
- dead
) devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" ;

Adverb : DEAD

Source:WordNet 3.1

1. (
- abruptly ,
- suddenly ,
- short ,
- dead ,
) quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" ;

2. (
) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" ;

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